Globe and Mail: A doctor who treated Montreal photojournalist Zahra Kazemi in the intensive care unit of a Tehran hospital has reportedly been arrested by Iranian Revolutionary Guards. The doctor’s life may be in jeopardy because he can testify about the severity of the head wounds and other injuries the photojournalist suffered while she was in the custody of Iranian authorities, Stephan Hachemi, Ms. Kazemi’s son, said yesterday.
MD who treated Kazemi reportedly held in Iran
Iran smuggling graphite compound for nukes – exile
Reuters: Iran has been using front companies to skirt international export controls and purchase a graphite compound that can be used in nuclear and conventional arms, an Iranian exile said on Friday. The latest allegation from Alireza Jafarzadeh, an Iranian dissident who has reported accurately on Iran’s hidden nuclear facilities and activities in
the past, comes days before the European Union meets Iran’s top nuclear negotiator in Geneva to persuade Tehran not to resume sensitive atomic work.
Iran Said to Be Smuggling Nuclear Matter
AP: Iran is circumventing international export bans on sensitive dual-use materials by smuggling graphite and a graphite compound that can be used to make conventional and nuclear weapons, an Iranian dissident and a senior diplomat said Friday. Graphite has many peaceful uses, including steel manufacture, but also can be used as a casing for molten weapons-grade uranium to fit it to nuclear warheads or to shield the cones of conventional missiles from heat.
France Calls Iran Nuclear Talks ‘Fragile’
AP: European-led talks aimed at getting Iran to abandon nuclear activities are “very fragile,” with negotiators discussing economic, technical and political cooperation, France’s foreign minister said Monday. Michel Barnier would not elaborate on the proposals in an interview with The Associated Press.
US counsel for Iran exile group chides HRW report
Iran Focus: Washington, D.C., May 20 A report by the New York-based Human Rights Watch on an Iranian opposition group was factually erroneous, politically motivated, and the result of an investigative process so flawed as to call into serious question the honesty and integrity of those who issued it, the groups counsel in the United States said.
US counsel for Iran exile group chides HRW report
Iran Focus: Washington, D.C., May 20 A report by the New York-based Human Rights Watch on an Iranian opposition group was factually erroneous, politically motivated, and the result of an investigative process so flawed as to call into serious question the honesty and integrity of those who issued it, the groups counsel in the United States said. Ronald G. Precup, U.S. Counsel for the People’s Mojahedin of Iran (PMOI) said, The cited sources for the report are all operatives of Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security, experts in planting false information about the PMOI around the world”.
Dissident cleric rails again Iran’s system
Reuters: Iran’s Islamic system has been abused to deny the president real power, sapping public interest in next month’s election, the country’s top dissident cleric says. Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, an architect of the Islamic revolution,
told Reuters Iranians would not vote in large numbers on June 17 because real authority lay not with the president but with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
British parliamentary group: Irans mullahs fooled HRW
Iran Focus: London, May 20 A British parliamentary group expressed its profound concern at the publication of a report by Human Rights Watch containing unsubstantiated allegations against the Iranian Resistance and the Peoples Mojahedin Organisation of Iran (PMOI) and called on the rights group to retract the report, which it said does not stand to scrutiny.
British parliamentary group: Irans mullahs fooled HRW
Iran Focus: London, May 20 A British parliamentary group expressed its profound concern at the publication of a report by Human Rights Watch containing unsubstantiated allegations against the Iranian Resistance and the Peoples Mojahedin Organisation of Iran (PMOI) and called on the rights group to retract the report, which it said does not stand to scrutiny.
Rice: Iran out of step with Mideast change
AP: As political change takes hold in several Middle Eastern countries, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Thursday that Iran’s leaders “should not consider themselves immune” from such developments. The United States and other nations have complaints about Iran’s government that go beyond the current international effort to stop Tehran from developing a nuclear weapon, Rice said.
